A BUDDING musician had a brush with old school fame when rock star Meat Loaf popped into a Chester guitar shop this week.

Wannabe rock star Sam Orr, 19, was preparing to close at Guitar Experience in Brook Street on Monday when his quiet afternoon was rudely interrupted by some larger-than-life customers.

Sam, of Newtown, said: 'I was doing something in the corner of the shop and I could hear someone really loud pushing the door open.

'When he started to speak I thought 'oh, it's just another loud American' and kept my head down. There were about six of them all together and a really big bloke at the back.'

Meat Loaf and his entourage looked around the shop - which opened last October - for a few minutes before the famous rocker's session guitarist settled on a nylon classical guitar for £37.

Sam, who has played in his own band Electric Blues EXP for the last year, said: 'They shouted over to ask if they could have any money off the guitar if Meat Loaf played it.

'I looked up and thought no way, but they kept saying it. I looked up again and my mate said how it did look a bit like him, he was getting excited.

'I am not a fan but it is overwhelming when you work in a shop on Brook Street and Meat Loaf walks in.'

Jimi Hendrix devotee Sam discovered that Meat Loaf's bartering guitarist had spotted the advert for Guitar Experience, owned by Sam's dad, in the Yellow Pages while staying overnight in Manchester on their current tour.

Sam said: 'He could see our advert was a bit smaller than the other shops and picked us because it was more likely to be a bit quiet and Meat Loaf wouldn't be mobbed or anything.'